Meningitis

It is well known that meningitis is a virulent condition that will often prove fatal or cause long term neurological damage unless treated promptly.

As a result, time is of the essence and the claimant often has the burden of proving that a referral diagnosis should have been made sooner. Sometimes, only one or two hours can make the difference to whether a case succeeds.

We have dealt with the following errors:

• delay by a general practitioner in attending patient and referring him to hospital
• hospital failure to appropriately record patient's symptoms leading to delay in diagnosis
• hospital discharging patient following warning from its own microbiologist that the patient may have spinal meningitis
• catastrophic brain injury caused by prescription error in treatment of neonatal meningitis
• inadequate antibiotic treatment following diagnosis.

For further information please contact one of the team. Alternatively please click here to complete a short enquiry form so we can assess your claim.